The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    New SR290, but...

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by scotthallett, Jan 26, 2009.

  1. scotthallett

    scotthallett Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Greetings all, new to this forum and I had a quick question.

    I just got a new SR290 and I love it. I finally gave in and deccided to get win64 on it - I had been hesitating for fear of a lack of compatibility.

    Well, after many reviews and countless people telling me I should be ok - by this time - the backwards compatibility and support for apps - you should have no issues.

    First day at work with it, and I try to install the Cisco VPN client - and no go :-( They have said that they dont and wont have a 64 bit version of their client.

    I spent the last 4 hours or so trying to find ways to work around the issue - but none that I am comfortable with.

    • NPE Client
    • Run a VM session
    • Cygwin port of Linux client

    My question is this.

    If I create the system install cd's - can I install and choose to install 32bit? Or am I stuck with the 64 bit version, I didnt get Business, so I dont have the XP "downgrade" option? Do I have the Vista 32 downgrade option?

    Secondly, I have 4 GB - I know I lose some, but can my system be unstable with 4 GB if the O.S. tries to write to a mem address outside the 3GB limit?

    Thanks all for your help!
     
    scotthallett, Jan 26, 2009
    #1
  2. vulture99

    vulture99 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    19
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I thought that 32-bit apps can still be installed on 64-bit Vista. Doesn't Vista make a separate "Program Files (x86)" installation folder for that?
     
    vulture99, Jan 26, 2009
    #2
  3. scotthallett

    scotthallett Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yup, two dir's

    But the client wont install - after I run it it says:

    Error: 28011 - Windows 64-bit is not supported by Cisco Systems VPN Client 5.0.01.0600

    And there are plenty of forum/blog posts with angry individuals discussing about the lack of support.

    However, all of the other apps I have installed that were 32-bit went into the x86 dir and work just fine....

    When one buys a 64 bit notebook - do they have the option of re-installing 32 bit?

    Thanks!
     
    Last edited by a moderator: May 8, 2015
    scotthallett, Jan 26, 2009
    #3
  4. Primes

    Primes Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    919
    Messages:
    1,736
    Likes Received:
    718
    Trophy Points:
    131
    what about a different program like Hamachi?
     
    Primes, Jan 27, 2009
    #4